{"id":4619,"date":"2009-03-29T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2009-03-29T09:30:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T14:30:35","slug":"leading_economic_indicators_grifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/leading_economic_indicators_grifters.html","title":{"rendered":"Leading Economic Indicators: Grifters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my god, it&#8217;s like Bill the Butcher will be standing around the corner! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2009\/03\/29\/2009-03-29_grifters_use_broken_glasses_in_new_schem-1.html\">Grifters are back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You&#8217;ll never see them coming.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of clever grifters have been scamming unsuspecting passersby in midtown with just a pair of broken glasses, cops warn.<\/p>\n<p>The con artists bump into their mark, flash a pair of prebroken glasses to the ground and then begin angrily demanding cash to pay for the &#8220;smashed&#8221; specs.<\/p>\n<p>The scam has become so widespread that cops from Manhattan&#8217;s Midtown North Precinct put out flyers with the photos of some of the worst scammers &#8212; known as &#8220;fraudulent accosting recidivists&#8221; &#8212; for the sheer number of times they have run their schemes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scam is an oldie but a goodie. The victims get flustered and sometimes turn over the cash just to get the suspect to shut up and leave them alone,&#8221; a police source said.<\/p>\n<p>Nair (Naim) Jabbar had two pairs of broken eyeglasses in a bag when cops arrested him last month. The ex-con bumped into his latest victim on W. 53rd St. and Fifth Ave., court records show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You broke my glasses! You own me $125!&#8221; Jabbar, 41, yelled.<\/p>\n<p>But when his victim asked him to come back to his office to figure out a solution, Jabbar slunk off, court papers said.<\/p>\n<p>Jabbar&#8217;s 29-year-old lookout, Jshawn Lewis, had $1,478 in cash in his pockets, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Jabbar, who had just been charged in December with an eyeglass scam, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for this last hustle. He gets out April 18.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my god, it&#8217;s like Bill the Butcher will be standing around the corner! Grifters are back: You&#8217;ll never see them coming. A handful of clever grifters have been scamming unsuspecting passersby in midtown with just a pair of broken glasses, cops warn. The con artists bump into their mark, flash a pair of prebroken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}